This Sept. 2, 2010, essay at the website of the Heritage Foundation sounded the alarm about a New Jersey case that author Cully Stimson argued is evidence that “Sharia-loving extremists are determined to establish an Islamic Caliphate around the world, especially in America.”

In September 2010 the Center for Security Policy released this report that called Islamic law “the preeminent totalitarian threat of our time.”

Read an Oct. 12, 2010, column by Reza Aslan at The Daily Beast about the push to ban Shariah.

Read the Oct. 13, 2010, story by CBS News.

The Tennessean published a package of stories on Oct. 24, 2010, related to mistrust of Muslims in the state. Shariah law plays a part in that concern and is an issue in a lawsuit to block construction of a mosque in Murfreesboro, Tenn.

Read an Oct. 19, 2010, Council on Foreign Relations interview with John C. Green of the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, who says that although voters are primarily concerned about jobs and the economy, they may also feel growing anxiety about Islam and the cultural and ethnic changes in the country.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations, known as CAIR, continues to be the best-known and most aggressive organization for addressing grievances by Muslims, but it has become a target of government scrutiny because of allegations linking it to the Palestinian Hamas movement. The FBI curtailed contact with CAIR, as Fox News reported in this January 30, […]

Read the text of President Obama’s 2009 speech at Cairo University on the civil rights of Muslims.

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder also released a statement to coincide with Obama’s Cairo University speech, stating that the Justice Department is “committed to using criminal and civil rights laws to protect Muslim Americans.”